Nauvoo Day 6

  Day 6 - Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Those of us that are endowed, began our day with a session in the Nauvoo Temple. So so amazing. The inside was so pretty and had all the little touches of the original temple. After our session, while the boys drove into Keokuk, to fix a flat tire on the van, us girls and grandpa walked and self-toured the inside of the temple. There was a "hall museum" with original sacred artifacts, which was so amazing to see.

After the temple and Adam and Levi made it back from fixing the tire, we did a wagon ride that went down main street and by the major sites, while telling fun little incites about each. After the wagon ride, we, walked main street and explored all the "Pioneer Life" Sites. The Browning Gun Shop, The Tin Shop, The Bakery, The Post Office, The Printing Office, The Family Living Center, The School House, The Cultural Hall and several other apostles homes. 

We ran until the sites closed again at 5:00pm, squeezing as much in as possible. That night we went shopping some more. We found so many fun Nauvoo Souvenirs: shirts, socks, ties, tie pins, puzzles, tin lantern, cow pie Frisbee, stickers, etc. It was while we were shopping at the Mercantile when all of our phones went off at the same time, alerting us of a tornado warning. The employees, said for everyone that would like to, could go into the basement. I was tempted...being my first tornado warning, it was pretty nerve racking, but no one else went down, so we just continued shopping. We then walked to the Red Front Restaurant again for dinner. Almost as soon as we walked in to the restaurant, the storm hit. We texted the kids that had ran up to the apartment and told them to come down until it blew over. They literally had to run like 12 steps and busted through the doors soaking wet. It gave us all a good laugh. The storm was crazy. Felt like we were all in a car wash. There were several people there taking shelter with us, including some missionaries. They all seemed pretty calm which helped us stay calm. The owner of the restaurant and the apartment we were staying in, had his computer out and was tracking the storm. He said we didn't really need to worry until the sky grew green. Haha!

The storm blew over after about 30 minutes. That the only time it rained our entire trip but it was a good one. That night, we played games and ate munchies until way too late. 

After our session, while the boys took the van to get fixed. 

The wagon tour was so fun and educational. 

Adam introducing himself to the horses.

Oxen

Sites down main street!

Meeting new horses of a wagon that just pulled up.

This was most of the guys favorite site. 

Original Floors

Carter owns this gun!

Learning how they made the guns. 

Original China

This piece went to Salt Lake and back. 

Trap door where their well was. First "indoor plumbing"

Headstone of infant. 

Dad telling us a story about his grandfather owning one of Browning's guns!

Post Office

Printing Office

Where some of our sayings come from. 

John Taylors Home

Original Floors. 

It was fun being in Nauvoo for several days because sometimes you'd get the same missionaries from the the day before but at different sites. This sister was one our favorites. 

Living Room where all the Apostles met and prayed many times

Scovil Bakery, complete with molasses cookies.

Cellar where they kept the ingredients cool. 

There were several original foundations around the city. 

Family Living Center, where you can learn how they made several items. 

Calli, Levi, Sadie and Nick making a barrel

Learning how they packed their wagon. This was a common packing list for the wagons. 

(1000lbs of flour??)

Got our brick!

Waiting for our tour for the cultural hall.

Figuring out our next stop.

Cute stage and

Program

Sadie performing on the stage!

Original Floors

Wreath made out of hair

Dances, meetings and events were held upstairs

Another view of the temple...seriously one of my favorite parts was always finding the temple no matter where we were. So many homes were built to face the temple 

Thought this was interesting. Every site had a Tornado shelter location list. 

Blacksmith Shop

Learning how they built the wagons

Boot Shops. There were several shoe shops in town.

Cute School House. 

Changing the tire on the van...never a dull moment. 

Driving up the hill from historic Nauvoo, past the temple and to Mulholland Street. 

Ran into Jared Gough and his family. Haha!

Dark Skies & tornado warnings

These four!

Storm ended, time to keep exploring.